Looking for a thin windowmanager

[nhs]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a really thin windowmanager on a Debian basesystem running on virtualbox machine. The WM should provide a simple desktop for launching few application by doubleclicking their buttons.
Can anyone give me some recommendations ?

thanks

[oz]

Hello and welcome to the forums!

You can find a nice listing of window managers (and desktop environments) along with their descriptions here:

Window Managers for X

I personally like using openbox for my own window manager needs.

Best of luck to you with your project.

[nhs]

Many thanks for your suggestion @ozar. I'll check the WM list now.

cu

[reed9]

+1 for openbox. It's also what I mostly use. I also like pekwm. (I don't know why they have that hideous orange theme on their homepage, but you can make it look much prettier.)

[Dapper Dan]

+2 for openbox. I mostly use IceWM as a light WM but really like openbox too.

[coopstah13]

i never liked any of the *box WM's myself

for a light WM, I prefer fvwm-crystal, it takes up about only 8mb of memory so its still pretty darn light but I find the "eye candy" to be greater than what is provided by those *box WM's